The present study reports the successful management, nutritional requirements and absorptive capacity in a seventeen-year-old boy who has to date survived for more than two years since massive ...

When parts of the small intestine are diseased or die, the treatment can involve surgically removing the affected tissue. Although lifesaving, the procedure—referred to as a radical small bowel ...

Since glutamine (Gln) is considered a major fuel for small bowel (SB), extensive SB resection could alter whole body Gln metabolism in vivo. Very few data are available on Gln metabolism in infants.

Oct. 21, 2005 (San Francisco) — Patients hospitalized for small bowel obstruction were likely to require rehospitalization within three years and had an unexpectedly high mortality rate, according to ...

What are the best strategies for management of patients who have had total resection of the small bowel? The authors of a study published in Surgery [1] review their experiences treating 13 patients ...

STEATORRHEA is common in patients who have had all or part of the ileum removed. Originally, investigators assumed that this was because fat absorption occurred mainly in the ileum. 1 In 1957, when ...